Eduardo Quisumbing: Documenting Philippine Medicinal Plants

Filipino botanist Eduardo Quisumbing was a leading authority on Philippine medicinal flora. His seminal works include:

  • Medicinal Plants of the Philippines (1951)
  • Plants Used in Philippine Folk Medicine (1957)
  • Textbook of Philippine Botany (1978)
  • Philippine Medicinal Plants (2009)

His documentation of hundreds of species advanced ethnobotany and preserved traditional healing knowledge.

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